Unemployment rates rose in 44 U.S. states in July, the most states to show a monthly increase in more than three years and a reflection of weak hiring nationwide.The Labor Department said Friday that unemployment rates fell in only two states and were unchanged in four...Unemployment rates rose in nine states that are considered battlegrounds in the presidential election. That trend, if it continued, could pose a threat to President Barack Obama’s re-election bid in less than three months.

From Breitbart, "The other half of the Simpson-Bowles commission gave an interview Friday in which he praised Paul Ryan as “a spokesman of hard truth against fakery." Alan Simpson, the former Senator from Wyoming who co-chaired the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democrat Erskine Bowles, is a fan of the new Republican vice presidential nominee....The quote about "hard truth" came in the context of Ryan's selection as candidate for Vice President. Simpson said, "I don’t think he was seeking it, but let me tell you, he becomes a spokesman of hard truth against fakery." Simpson also predicted that the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction plan would be brought back to life at some point in the future: "Dr. Frankenstein is about to come by and inject some electrodes into the corpse and it’s going to rise from the shelf."Read more here: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/17/Other-Half-of-Simpson-Bowles-Commission-Offers-Support-for-Paul-Ryan

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